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Gallery Talk: Revealing the Mysteries of Jun Ware

Lobed Flowerpot with Foliate Rim, Chinese, Ming dynasty, probably 15th century. Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 3 (san) inscribed on base before firing; “Palace of Double Glory” inscription incised on base at a later date. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane, 1942.185.9.

Gallery Talk

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Melissa Moy, the Alan J. Dworsky Associate Curator of Chinese Art, and Susan Costello, associate conservator of objects and sculpture in the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, will give today’s gallery talk. Adorning the Inner Court: Jun Ware for the Chinese Palace is on view through August 13, 2017.

Free with museums admission. This talk is limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before the talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.

Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk. Museums staff will be on hand to collect tickets.

Gallery talks are offered by curators, conservators, fellows, and other museums staff; they focus on aspects of the installation process, exploring both intellectual and more practical considerations. Museums staff will, for example, tease out arguments at play in the galleries, discuss conservation treatments, look closely at specific collections, or draw connections between works of art throughout the museums.